By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks fell on Wall Street in afternoon trading Thursday, on pace to end the market’s worst quarter since the early days of the pandemic. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% as of 2:37 p.m. Eastern, though it was down as much as 2.1% earlier in trading.
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has launched a probe of the New York Police Department unit that investigates sex crimes following years of complaints about the way it treats crime victims. The civil rights investigation announced Thursday will review the department’s Special Victims
Continue Reading LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died. He was 83. Barger’s death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday. “If you are reading this message, you’ll know that
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The lack of consistent access to clean water is an issue that many people in the east valley deal with daily, but on Thursday, the concerns are getting the attention of a federal official. Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small toured several areas
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Ayer se dio a conocer que la empresa Amazon compró un terreno de 102 acres donde se construirá un gran almacén que será el más grande Estados Unidos cerca del freeway 10 y la calle Indian Canyon en Desert Hot Springs. La estructura de 3.4 millones de pies cuadrados será centro de almacenamiento y distribución
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El vocero del hospital Einsehower de Ranco Mirage informó que atendieron a un hombre de 60 años y que están a la espera de los resultados de los análisis que se le practicaron ya que posiblemente tiene la viruela del mono porque presenta todos los síntomas, pero no requirió hospitalización por lo que este podría
Continue Reading The city of Palm Springs announced that We Are One United, a local Palm Springs-based nonprofit, recently received a $2.1 million grant this month from the California Board of State and Community Correction’s Violence Intervention grant program. In October 2019 Governor Newsom signed the Break the Cycle of Violence Act with the purpose of improving
Continue Reading YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — For the second time in three days, a visitor to Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison, park officials said Thursday. A 71-year-old woman from West Chester, Pennsylvania and her daughter inadvertently approached the bison Wednesday as they were returning to their vehicle at a Yellowstone Lake trailhead.
Continue Reading By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Associated Press board chair Frank Daniels Jr. has died at 90. His son says he died Thursday. In addition to his service on the board of directors of the not-for-profit news cooperative, Daniels shepherded The News & Observer of Raleigh through an era of
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La Patrulla de Carreteras de California informó que con motivo del fin de semana largo del 4 de julio incrementaran su patrullaje en calles y caminos de su jurisdicción en el Valle de Coachella con la finalidad de mantener fuera de las calles a conductores ebrios o a quien maneje sin licencia o con licencia
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The city of Palm Springs announced today the hiring of a sustainability director to spearhead efforts to combat climate change. Lindsey-Paige McCloy, a program director for the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s Pilots project team, is slated to begin her new role in Palm Springs on Aug. 1. “The city has made great strides toward confronting
Continue Reading By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers plan to vote Thursday on legislation seeking to limit the proliferation of firearms in public after the Supreme Court gutted the state’s century-old handgun licensing law. The state is overhauling its rules for carrying guns after the court ruled that ordinary
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There’s a new law in California that will change how you throw out your trash – and it starts for some here in the valley Friday. In Palm Desert, the first phase of new composting rules are being rolled out ahead of a July 1 start date – bringing changes people’s trash bins, and even
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says his country has sent a letter of request to the United States to buy a squadron of F-35 fighter jets. The purchase would be part of ongoing efforts to bolster Greece’s defense capabilities amid continuing tensions with neighboring Turkey. Speaking to reporters in Madrid Thursday during a
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says his country has sent a letter of request to the United States to buy a squadron of F-35 fighter jets. The purchase would be part of ongoing efforts to bolster Greece’s defense capabilities amid continuing tensions with neighboring Turkey. Speaking to reporters in Madrid Thursday during a
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Ayer se presentó en corte Joshua Lamar quien fue arrestado el viernes de la semana pasada cuando agentes de la patrulla fronteriza le ordenaron detenerse mientras manejaba su auto sobre la I-10 y la calle Golf Center Parkway en Indio. Al inspeccionar el vehículo un perro entrenado olfateó el cargamento de droga que estaba escondida
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A judge in Kentucky temporarily blocked that state’s near-total ban on abortions Thursday, while a Florida judge said he would temporarily stop a 15-week ban from taking effect there, as judges across the country weigh whether state constitutions permit the procedure after the
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — La Conferencia Episcopal Ecuatoriana informó este jueves en conferencia de prensa que, tras llegar a un acuerdo con el gobierno nacional, los movimientos indígenas decidieron terminar las manifestaciones y bloqueos que llevaban 18 días. “Y de conformidad con lo que aquí estipulado, los presidentes de la Conaie, Feine y Fenocin
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El Departamento de Salud del Condado de Riverside reportó que casi 4 mil personas se contagiaron del coronavirus desde el viernes de la semana pasada hasta ayer, de esa cantidad 690 son del Valle de Coachella, además se informó que hay 156 pacientes hospitalizados, de los cuales 14 están en terapia intensiva luchando contra COVID-19.
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a major blow to climate action by handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate planet-warming emissions from the country’s power plants, just as scientists warn the world is running out of time to get the climate crisis under control. It is a major loss
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